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Research integrity
Full anti-plagiarism checking
Provision for open research data and software
archiving with all publications
Rigorous peer review
Editorial guidance and training
Provision for open peer review
COPE membership for all editors
Close links with university’s ethics committee
Researchers communicate differently to other people. Central to this is the social contract of science.
We agree to disseminate our work widely, allowing others to validate it and build upon it.
The best and arguably only way to do this effectively is OA, so we are an OA publisher.
If you don’t do this, it can be termed scientific malpractice, and it applies not only to results.
All factors of successful data publication
Need to ensure authors motivated
The Ubiquity Network:
Access to a large peer review pool (100,000+)
Content cascading
Editor sourcing
We want to include presses from the developing world in our network too.
Flying in in organised formation is 70% more efficient than flying solo.
Often when a bird falls out of formation, others stay back with it until it can catch up.
No bird gets left behind.